The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-10
Other Publications.

A colored portrait of Prince Bismarck is fur
nished with the London illustrated News of
Oct. 90. An American edition of this periodical
is now issued in New York
The Art Amateur announces that its several
specisIties flower aud china painting. wood
carving needlework. etc, will be continued for
the coming year with an accompanying profu-
sion of new and Original designs by the best
artists ard that a number of new and attractive
features VIII be added. Among the designs
with the November issue is one for tapestry
painting. There is also q colored study of
grapes. % Union square
The Art Interchange, which has ALWAYS de-
voted great ettentlonto giving practical instru
ton to students, has arranged to make Its teach
Ing somewhat more systematic by establishing
art classes to be conducted on the Chautauqua
plan. The course of study will be modelled on
the best French method, and Instructions and
monthly criticisms of the work will be gwen by
artists and teachers of repute The Interchange
publishes an attractive prospectus for the com :
Ing year. 81 West Twenty-second street. New
York.
Prof. A H dfiach, author of "German Simpli-
fed" has issued the first of of pam phlets
arranged n the same system as that work, er-
titled '1SI anlsh SImpiifed-" These lessons.
which int ded especially for self-instruction
but are also ada pied for in schools, form q
complete course in the language for all the or
binary purposes of reading, business and travel.
The method seems to bs an excellent one. and
the explanations are so concise and clear that
the student should have little diff Guilty in
securing a knowledge of Spanish sufficient for
prac lical uses The pamphlets sold at ten
cents number. New York, No. 40 Nassau street.
The November Wide Awake closes up the
volume lettered ''Y" of that magazine. and with
it to close all the serial stories and arti-
cles that have been running through the year.
The illustrations. except in the closing paper Ct
Margaret Sidney's Concord; Her Highways and
By-ways," are not up to the usual high stand
ard and there is an evident cleaning-up effect,
as if to get ready for the holiday number. The
Wide Awake makes a mistake in running series
of papers by the same authors. One tires of
seeing the names to articles the year
through, fault which is more noticeable in this
magazine than in any other Less than a dozen
people do two-thirds of the writing for the Wide
Awake. and there is variety in it.
With its November issue the Art Age pub
fishes supplement- dainty water-color
print. entitled 1.-The Village Belle" which is
fac-simile of painting by Percy Moran, AL
though eighteen paintings were required to pro-
duce it, and il shows bv combination of tints be-
tween twenty ana thirty coors, the final
suit is so delicate, and the water-color effects
are so exactly reproduced that it serves
admirable illustration of the perfection which
colorp printing has reached, and is credit to
American art. The Art Age which has estab-
lished reputation for sending out designs
but those of the highest artistic character,
nounces that this print is to be followed by
others of equal merit, in succeeding issues.
"a West Twenty second street. New York.